Shake a spear or wiggle a stick…after all, what’s in a name?
Willy Wigglestick curriculum: Ms. Fitch’s 5th grade class – 1979
Why “Willy Wigglestick”?
When I was in fifth grade, some of us “gifted” students did a brief study of Shakespeare out of a booklet called “Willy Wigglesticks.” The opening of the booklet said something like, “Shake a spear, or wiggle a stick…what’s in a name?”
Four decades later, we have a thing called “the Internet,” and this is my little slice of it, where I share my thoughts on Willy and his works.
Over those decades, my own personal Shakespeare library has grown to include a variety of publications by and about Shakespeare, including around 40 different editions of the Complete Works, and individual plays in multiple editions. (You can see a spreadsheet of my current library HERE.)
Throughout the years, I’ve continued to build my Shakespeare library, and I started the Willy Wigglestick blog on Tumblr in May 2013. I moved it to WordPress in April 2021, and it has lived there ever since.
The goal of the Willy Wigglestick blog is to share my favorite Shakespeare passages, films, art, and other materials that I’ve encountered on the internet and beyond.
If you enjoy what you find here, I welcome feedback at coryhowell@willywigglestick.com.
“I am but mad north-northwest; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.” (Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2)
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Sirrah, if I were still alive, this would be exactly what my website would look like.
Everything you see here that has Shaksper’s name on it…don’t believe it. It’s really mine.
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